“We are your Cure for the Common, and we invite you to strap on your helmet and come aboard. Your spaceship is about to blast off into an experience known as ‘Montana-grown Electro Thunder Funk,’ where we and our fellow fun-loving cosmonauts jettison Earth’s atmosphere to explore a universe of captivating musical influences.” Oh, my!…
The 8th annual Purple Hatter’s Ball was winding down to its Sunday conclusion at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. Fae Nageon de Lestang and Grant McLeod, members of Flat Land, were about to head back home to Gainesville. They had performed second at Thursday’s pre-party and again on Friday at the River Stage. Here…
Listening to Naughty Professor is an opportunity to time-travel through the history of jazz, especially the musical roots of New Orleans. In the process of research for a review of a recent show in Tampa, I noted this: Currently, there is no Wikipedia listing for Naughty Professor (not the band, anyway), so here is a…
If you’re going to bill yourselves as “Louisiana’s premier intergalactic space jazz band,” you’d best be prepared to back it up. Captain Green, the Baton Rouge sextet has been touring relentlessly to demonstrate exactly that, and the band’s brand new album, Protecting Each Other Together, puts an exclamation point on it. They’ve stirred rock, funk,…